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February 10, 2002 Sunday Ziqa’ad 26, 1422 India turns to US for weapons: Delay in deals with Russia NEW DELHI, Feb 9: India on Saturday said it was looking to acquire more sophisticated weapon systems from the United States a day after failing to clinch a raft of billion-dollar... Margaret: a forerunner of Lady Diana LONDON, Feb 9: Britain’s Princess Margaret, who died on Saturday at the age of 71, was long considered to be the black sheep of the royal family.... Iran will have N-bomb in 5-10 years: researcher PARIS, Feb 9 Bruno Tertrais, a researcher at the Paris-based Foundation for Strategic Research and one of the leading specialists on the Iranian nuclear programme, says that Iran will be able... N-attack on NY to kill 250,000: study PARIS, Feb 8: A terror attack on New York using a Hiroshima-sized nuclear bomb would kill more than a quarter of a million people and leave hundreds of thousands sick, according... Philosopher for Afghanistan PARIS, Feb 9: Some countries would appoint a parliamentary fact-finding mission. Others might ask a team of international aid experts. But to find out what war-torn Afghanistan needs most, only France... Work on temple to begin soon, warns VHP LUCKNOW, Feb 9: Radical Hindu group Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Saturday threatened to go ahead with the plans for construction of a temple at the site of the Babri Mosque razed... Hardline Algerian group chief shot dead ALGIERS, Feb 9: Antar Zouabri, blamed for some of Algeria’s bloodiest and most ruthless attacks as leader of the radical Armed Islamic Group, has been killed by Algerian forces, a government... Africa needs rich states’ help, says Chirac PARIS, Jan 9: Speaking before 13 African heads of state in Paris for a major summit on ways to “relaunch” the African economy, French President Jacques Chirac, who is hosting the... US looking for permanent base in Central Asia WASHINGTON, Feb 9: The war in Afghanistan may be winding down, but the United States appears to be moving towards creating a permanent military presence for itself in the region.... China to send Buddha’s bone to Taiwan TAIPEI, Feb 9: China will send a piece of Buddha’s finger bone for exhibition in Taiwan next week, in the largest religious exchange with the breakaway island to date, a Taiwan... Israel provoking war with Lebanon BEIRUT: A heated diplomatic campaign waged by the United States and Israel against Iran and its Lebanese protege, Hezbollah, could have an unintended and potentially destabilizing backlash.... EU at odds with US foreign policy BRUSSELS: Chris Patten, the EU commissioner in charge of Europe’s international relations, has launched a scathing attack on American foreign policy - accusing the Bush administration of a dangerously “absolutist and... Terror war endangers refugees, warns UN UNITED NATIONS: The global fight against terrorism should not weaken the international refugee protection regime, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said on Thursday.... Iraq is not Afghanistan DUBAI: US President George W Bush’s identification of Iran, Iraq and North Korea as the “axis of evil” continues to unsettle parts of the Middle East. The first likely target in... Margaret: a wild child with respectable children LONDON: Princess Margaret’s son and daughter were both happily married. They never hit the headlines. Both were spared the harsh media spotlight.... Prosperous Afghan bounty hunters GHAZNI: Ali Akbar Qasmi claims he does not work for the money. But he has not turned down the $40,000 a head that he says the US government pays him for... Russia, India and China may form trilateral power axis NEW DELHI: With the prospect of extended US military presence in Central Asia now increasingly likely, Russia has revived a three-year-old proposal to rope India and China into a trilateral power... Rabbani terms Bonn accord a trick by UN DUBAI, Feb 9: Former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani was quoted on Saturday as saying the Bonn pact that sidelined him when it set up Afghanistan’s new government was a scandalous trick...

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